Starting Monday July 20th through Friday July 24th the Jr. Whites will be swimming their hardest week of the season, Hell Week! This week will be extra tough but we still expect 100% effort from everyone.

The theme for this week is “Shipwreck.” The swimmers were all on a boat which was ambushed by the evil pirates Long-John Liam and the Atrocious Alexis. The pirates have stolen their boat and abandoned the swimmers on a small island in the middle of the ocean. There are no rescue boats or land to be seen and the only way off the island is to swim all the way back to Richmond. From the island to Richmond is 6000 meters, can we make it back?

As an incentive to come to practices and work hard, the reward will be Scoops. The amount of Scoops a swimmer can get is based on the amount of practices they attend and effort exhibited at each practice. The criteria for to receive these ice cream scoops is as follows:

July 9th, 2015 | Posted by kigooswm in Coaches Corner - (Comments Off on Junior White Update from Coach Liam and Coach Alexis)

Hey Junior Whites! We’ve had a couple weeks of great practices, as we can see with the tremendous improvements we’ve made individually. The Smokey sky didn’t stop us from impressing at North Shore, and Coach Alexis and I are really looking forward to seeing what we can all do at Hootenanny this weekend! A couple things we have to remember:

TURNS TURNS TURNS!! At this point in the season we’ve covered turns excessively, so we should all know what is expected of us at each wall. Flip turns in freestyle races and in practice are not optional. Same goes for two hand touches in Breaststroke and Fly.

We need to see everyone trying for at least 5 underwater dolphin kicks off the wall in our Fly, Back, and Free races. These need to be done in a tight streamline.

Make sure we get our elbows up in Freestyle. Swinging our arms wide slows us down.

June 19th, 2015 | Posted by kigooswm in Coaches Corner - (Comments Off on Junior White Update from Coaches Alexis and Liam)

Hey Jr. Whites!

We can’t believe how fast this week went by. We covered a lot of ground throughout the week, mostly focusing on our turns in I.M. and our awesome underwater dolphin kicks off the walls. The attendance this week has been pretty good, but we want to encourage all swimmers to come to as many practices as they can.

For those of you who came to Boundary Bay, us coaches were impressed with the improvements from only a week! We all need to work on our streamlines off the walls and making our turns as fast as we can.

A few reminders, remember to bring runners every practice. We are doing warm-up in the back field almost every practice and without runners it is harder to play games. Also, be sure to check your emails because we have a lot of social events coming up including movie night on Thursday June 25th!

June 5th, 2015 | Posted by kigooswm in Coaches Corner - (Comments Off on Junior White Update from Coaches Alexis and Liam)

Jr White!

We’ve had a great week of practicing and getting ready for the Icebreaker. As returning swimmers know the Icebreaker is a lot of fun! We know that swim meets can be a confusing thing for new swimmers, so if you have any questions please email both liam@kigoos.com and alexis@kigoos.com. Emailing is the best way to reach us as we check it everyday.

We’ve done a lot of work on dives and turns, and we’re really looking forward to seeing it pay off this weekend!

Important reminder!!! Before we can go into the back field, we need everyone to start wearing runners and active clothing to activation. This is super important, and we really appreciate everyone who’s already been bringing runners to practice. Also, please bring a water bottle to practice, as the summer starts to heat up.

May 24th, 2015 | Posted by kigooswm in Coaches Corner - (Comments Off on Junior White Update from Liam and Alexis)

Junior Whites!

Alexis and I have really enjoyed the past week and getting to know you all a little bit better. We are really looking forward to this summer, especially with the improvements we’ve already seen!

This week we did a lot of work on our Breastroke, and introduced our Butterfly arms. Swimmers should continue to focus on flexing the feet during the Breastroke kick.

Last Saturday we had a little coaches and parents meeting. If you weren’t able to attend, one of the points we stressed is that we expect our swimmers to show up to activation wearing runners. There is a lot of movement during activation, and having all the swimmers wearing runners is a great way to make sure no one trips!